“...(T)here is increasing fear that rising jellyfish numbers are a sign that the world’s oceans are undergoing a fundamental ecological shift...Some researchers even hypothesize that we’re edging dangerously close to a major tipping point—a transition from highly evolved food webs, topped by large predatory fish and sea mammals, to more primitive ecosystems in which the dominant predators are jellyfish, the creatures thought to have ruled the seas some 500 million years ago.” —Garry Hamilton, Super Species: The Creatures That Will Dominate the Planet (Firefly Books).
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